Motivational Quotes

Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

- Manilius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John